Wednesday, November 02, 2022

"Flat-out Insane"

Especially when that rhetoric is working so well!
"I'm an American first," he told O'Sullivan. "It's funny. I voted a lot of times. I'm in my 60s and this is the first time an election has ever been 'stolen'. Come on."

I mean, especially because Republicans are cruising to victory: 

And Kari Lake stands firm on her crazy:
The network began by playing a clip of Lake claiming that she had never made light of the Pelosi attack, and she even accused the media of manipulating the footage to make her look bad.

"Go back and look at the video, a lot of creative editing was done," Lake claimed. "I think you'll know it if you were there. They clipped that clip and made it look bad."

Host Don Lemon obliged Lake and showed his audience the full clip of her at a forum that did, in fact, show her making jokes about the assault, which sent Pelosi to the hospital and reportedly required him to undergo brain surgery.

"Nancy Pelosi, she has protection when she's in DC -- her house doesn't have a lot of protection," Lake said, which prompted laughter from the audience. "If our lawmakers can have protection, if our politicians can have protection... certainly the most important people in our lives, our children, should have protection."

Oh....wait....
Early voting in Ohio (in person absentee) started in mid-October; so this poll may reflect voters' opinions, or just the opinions of the people who happened to respond to the poll this time, or may reflect no shift at all one way or the other because votes have already been cast. Nobody knows what's going to happen. But I'm seeing the usual late polls and opinion pieces that the GOP is going to "defeat" the Democratic uprising. And if that doesn't happen, prepare to read lots of post-mortems about how the GOP snatched defeat from the jaws of victory or how the Democrats "surprised everyone," but can they do it again in 2 years, and what does this mean for Joe Biden?

And the tragic history of 1930's Europe was a major economic recession ("depression," it turns out, is not a term of art in economics; but it's the only term that really fits what happened in the '30's when the speculative bubble burst.  People with long memories will remember how much governments spent to bail out financial institutions when the real estate speculation bubble burst, and how much Congress allotted to just about everybody in the U.S. to stave off a depression during/after the Covid shutdown.  Mostly because we did learn the salient lesson of the '30's.), one Germany was already suffering from before it caught up with the rest of the world.  Hitler rose to power on the back of the Armistice and punishment of Germany for World War I.  Yes, it could happen here, but it won't anytime soon.  And unless we start a major world war, then lose it and get milcted for reparations to the point our economy collapses, analogies to 1930's Europe are ignorant and misplaced.
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1 comment:

  1. The Thought Criminal9:01 AM

    With our native white supremacists, the 1930s European precedent for fascism is too remote to be relevant to America's politics. We have always had fascism for minorities, whether actual slavery or lynch-law Jim Crow or the extermination of Native Americans or the actual day-to-day gender murders of Women, LGBTQ etc. Those are the more potent precedents for an American fascism.

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